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A Lazy Election Trope Gets A Boring Replay In Texas

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13.10.2026

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A Lazy Election Trope Gets A Boring Replay In Texas

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Few things are ever new in politics. It’s like a television show that keeps producing the same season every year, but with different faces.

This week, a Dallas Morning News columnist took a walk around town and announced that Ken Paxton is finished.

“I am counting political signs to see who is winning in the Texas Senate race,” Dallas Cothrum wrote. “The news is not good for Ken Paxton. On most days he loses, sometimes by a wide margin. Recently I went by three particularly expensive homes in a row flying the James Talarico brand.”

Brace yourself, because you’ll be shocked by what comes next.

In some conservative neighbourhoods in Dallas, lawn signs supporting Beto O'Rourke outnumber those for Ted Cruz https://t.co/8D8IjOlwmh— The Economist (@TheEconomist) October 10, 2018

In some conservative neighbourhoods in Dallas, lawn signs supporting Beto O'Rourke outnumber those for Ted Cruz https://t.co/8D8IjOlwmh

In 2018, this story showed up in every lazy media outlet. “Beto O’Rourke yard signs are everywhere. Where are Ted Cruz’s?” The Houston Chronicle wrote that the Cruz campaign didn’t really care about lawn signs all that much, but the newspaper added that Beto thought the signs were helping him to make an argument beyond the limits of his political base: “O’Rourke told the paper........

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